Sr Buyer, Indirect Sourcing

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

This position will be responsible for supporting procurement excellence and driving best value for the categories under management, with key focus on cost, quality, and service. This role involves project management across several functions, business units and global sites and collaborating closely with business partners.

What you'll be doing

• Collaborate with internal partners and use these relationships to support the implementation of category strategies, pipeline items and short/medium/long-term goals to support the ongoing delivery of value pipeline
• Perform in depth spend analysis and market analysis on targeted areas of spend
• Support your supervisor in the development and execution of annual savings plans
• Develop RFI/RFPs and lead negotiations for key spend areas to achieve short-term and long-term savings targets.
• Support the supplier selection and contract negotiation process for key projects you are assigned
• Provide regular progress updates for assigned categories to the Senior Management and to key internal stakeholders
• Working with cross functional teams to drive various types of sourcing projects that span from easy to complex.
• Register the projects pipeline in the appropriate sourcing tools and provide regular reporting as to their status and expected benefits.
• Support in the implementation of the defined sourcing strategy and preferred suppliers.
• Generate regular reports for the category lead concerning the categories of spend under your responsibility
• Drive effective Supplier Relationship Management with key suppliers and monitor performance
• Stimulate and support innovation by using the supplier base, regularly reviewing market developments, and mobilizing the appropriate internal network
  

What you'll bring

• University degree or equivalent education in Finance, Engineering or Business
• Minimum 3 years of category procurement experience or other business experience. With multinational organizations a plus.
• Fluent in English
• Fluent Spanish and/or Portuguese a plus!
• Proven experience in people, stakeholder management
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Business acumen and ability to develop strategic thinking
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural and matrix environment.
• Ability to work efficiently with virtual teams.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while balancing priorities
• Ability to coordinate multiple parallel sourcing initiatives across different business groups
• Strong analytic and negotiation skills.
• Preferred: Experience in contracting includes but not be limited to Master Service Agreements, Statements of Work, Amendments and NDAs.
• Understanding of Procurement standard processes, supply markets, suppliers and products

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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